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ἄβιος

abios1

not to be survived

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What it meant — LSJ

= ἀβίωτος, βίος AP 7.715 (Leon.).

2 not to be survived

not to be survived, αἰσχύνη Pl. Lg. 873c.

II without a living, starving

without a living, starving, Luc. DMort. 26[15].3, Man. 4.113, Vett.Val. 46.12; ἄτεκνος καὶ ἄ. καὶ προώλης, an imprecatory form in CIG 3915.46 (Hierapolis).

III having no fixed subsistence, nomad

perh. having no fixed subsistence, nomad, Ἱππημολγῶν γλακτοφάγων ἀβίων τε Il. 13.6 (various expl. in Nic.Dam. p.145 D.); but prob. Ἀβίων, pr. n., cf. Arr. An. 4.1.1, Str. 7.3.2, etc.; Ἄ. Σαυρομάται Mus.Belg. 16.70 (Attic, ii A.D.).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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